The Deck is built

We came home from our cruise to a beautiful new deck.  The pictures show the progress.

You can see when we started the trees were still green- notice how they change in the progress pictures.

Ken painted it the other day, so it's all done except painting the new door(which we are loving so much.  The blinds are between the glass.) and trim.

Now that should last us a lifetime!!

Kenneth Reed Prince's Blessing

Kenneth Reed Prince was blessed in Las Vegas on January 4th in Michelle and Brian's ward.  The Camerons came from Logan and stayed with us on the way down.  Brian's parents- Cynthia and Gary Prince were there as well as Jana and Strider Farnsworth (Michelle and Jana are Hinton cousins- and I think look a bit alike) and their family.  

Grandpa, Lily and baby Hannah

These cousins are all ready for church

Horsey Grandpa Ken

The Prince Family 5

With Grandpa and Grandma Prince

With Grandpa and Grandma Hinton

Jana and Strider and their baby.  Jana's husband is a doctor in residency for the air force at Nellis Air Force Base in Vegas.  They also lived by each other in Washington DC as Strider went to medical school in DC while Brian was in law school there.  They get together for fun and they tend for each other when they go to the temple.  It's nice to have family in town!

After the meeting we all went to Brian and Michelle's for a wonderful dinner with delicious food and good company.  That sweet and sour chicken was amazing!  For the recipe, click here.

It was Stider and Jana's little guy's (Tolman's) fourth birthday, so his brownie came complete with a candle.

It is so nice to have Michelle and Brian closer so we can attend these important events.  It was a wonderful day!

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas.  My Keynote concert was on December 17th at the historic St. George Tabernacle.  We had a big crowd and it was fun to perform.

The Hinton family party was hosted by Melanie in her spacious apartment on December 22nd.  It ended up that only Melanie and Tiffani and her family were there from the "next" generation.  Thank you Melanie for a fun time.

Kid magnet Ken had fun playing with Rick and Tiffani's cute little ones.

Michelle and Brian and their family joined us on Christmas eve.  We were so excited for them to come.  

Christmas eve dinner

After dinner, we had our Christmas eve devotional and acted out the nativity.

Awesome angel!

Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus

Birthday cake for Jesus

Gabbi dove under the tree to retrieve Brian's Christmas eve gift that I accidentally put too far behind the tree.  She was the super hero!

Open one gift on Christmas eve.  On your mark, get set, go!

Jammies!!!

It looks like it's going to be a good one!!!

Santa did come!!

Can we come up yet?

Gifts from Grandpa and Grandma

Ziggle!!

My sister Joan made me this beautful quilt from vintage embroidered quilt blocks.

We had wonderful google chat calls with Camerons and Mackrorys as well and opened gifts to and from them.  Isn't technology grand?

Michelle and Brian gave us this fleece blanket with all ten of our beautiful grandchildren on it.  Now we can cuddle our grandchildren whenever we want, as Michelle said.  

Trying out the Ziggles at our tennis court.

And trying out the new bicycle

Twister was a big hit with Gabbi

Is there anything cuter than a baby smiling at his mama?  My baby smiling at her baby!

Thank you for coming Brian and Michelle and thank you to all for a wonderful Christmas!